Worldwide Quilt Day, Last Red Scraps and Lots of Strippie Tops

Hi there friends! Why don’t you grab a cup of your favorite beverage and have a seat. We’ve got a lot of Stuff to get through today! This will be a picture-heavy post, at least by my usual standards.

Last Saturday, we (Ruby, Kim and I) attended the World Wide Quilting Day event in Sandy, Utah. Joining us were Cathy (Ruby’s sister) and Jenny, Cousin Kim’s niece (and my late Cousin Carrie’s daughter). We had a blast. After we got settled into our favorite spot (by a window and an electrical outlet) and got our machines set up, we wandered over to the stage area. There, boxes and boxes of donated fabrics and scraps and books and patterns and….anything quilt/sewing related were spread out along with tons of quilters (both figuratively and literally) were searching for treasures. 

Our group was restrained in our acquisitions; I concentrated on smaller scraps, strings and solid yardage, which were curiously overlooked by everyone else. I also picked up a brand new bamboo pillow form still in the package. Bonus: I’m short, so it was good to sit on while I sewed! Ruby found a needlepoint owl piece that she is going to make into a pillow for her daughter who loves owls. Everyone else got a few pieces here and there. 

Last week on the blog I showed the little scrappy quilt that I’d made from the scrap challenge baggie I picked up at last year’s event. Of the 26 kits that were checked out in 2025, sixteen of us returned them as finished quilts. We were entered into a drawing for $100, and I won! Kim took my picture with the quilt and Ben Franklin.

While we were there, I sewed three Strippie quilt tops, which I’ll show and talk about later in the post. The food was plentiful and delicious, although I will admit that I may have had one or two extra helpings of apricot crumble (hold the crumble, but beware the sugar!)

Did you do anything quilt-related on Worldwide Quilting Day??

The end of March is upon us, and I managed to finish up all my red block sewing for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. First, I made 15 red string blocks that will finish at 6”. They are pinned in a group for donation to Quilts for Kids. 

And finally, I was able to eke out four 6” (finished) crumb blocks, also for Quilts for Kids. 

But even when added to the four from last year, my count is only up to 8. Maybe next year I’ll have more time and scraps to make up the final 7 to get me to a full set of 15. 

***We now interrupt this blog post for some kitty pictures, which have been scarce lately. Ruby gave me a birthday present in this box. Alfie turned his nose up at the Talavera pitcher, but fully endorsed the box. This pic was taken a few days later during one of his many forays into cardboardland. Humans just can’t appreciate the finer things in life!

Darla agrees with Alfie. But she is much more dignified. Here she is, regally “loaf”-ing on her mid-level cat tree perch.  “You may carry on,” she said. 

So, back to the Strippie quilts. And it should be evident with these quilt tops why all of a sudden I had an urge to take solids from the giveaway tables. The cute focal prints were donations, mostly from my friend Wanda. 

I’ve seen these Strippie quilts done in a very formulaic manner before, but I prefer to let the fun print determine the eventual size, depending on how much of it there is to play with. Here’s a closer picture of the colorful print.

There was enough of the vegetable fabric below to do not only this top and its backing, but another top that is cut and has yet to be sewn. 

And again, a closer shot of the fabrics.

This next top is the first one I played with when pre-cutting all the possibilities into sewing kits. The garden theme is just so happy and bright! No close-up for this one because the print is large enough to clearly distinguish. 

I’ll give all the measurements once they’re quilted and bound, but mostly they start with width-of-fabric strips (hence the name Strippie). I do trim the edges enough so that a single width-of-fabric can be used as the backing/fold-over binding. 

The above three tops were done at WWQuilting Day, as I said. But I was on a roll and kept going with this concept during the week….

Here’s a cute elephant quilt top. 

And here is another one in progress. This isn’t a Strippie, though. I had a large batch of kid print fat quarters that Ruby found at an estate sale (27 FQ’s to be exact). I selected this fox and squirrel print to start. There were 4 fat quarters of this design, but I only used 3. The other FQ was cut into two Zipper blocks and strings. 

And here’s the close-up of this fabric. 

I’ll finish up the border on this and then hang it with the others to be quilted. I’m hoping that Angela at So Scrappy will announce April’s color of the month today so that I can get started on it this weekend. Update: she did! April’s color is PINK, 

This morning is our Block of the Month class. Once that is done, my goal today is to finish the garden clean-up in the courtyard before the rains begin for all next week. Also, we (Bruce Kim and I) will be taking off for Arizona to visit family next Saturday. I’ll have a post up Friday night, but not sure when or if I’ll be able to link it up to the RSC as we’re driving for a couple days. But driving will probably be easier and faster than attempting to fly these days. Enough said.

Have a great week!

Preparing for Worldwide Quilting Day

One of the things that my Cousin Kim, me, my friend Ruby and her sister Cathy do every year is attend the Worldwide Quilting Day event in the city of Sandy, which is at the South end of the Salt Lake Valley. We’ve spent a good part of the week in preparation, gathering up the projects we want to work on, gathering up finished quilts to turn in to our Quilts for Kids group who will also be there, gathering our donations for the giveaway tables (which take up an entire performing stage area), preparing our food donation (it’s a gigantic potluck), etc. The event starts at 10:00 on Saturday morning (tomorrow as I write this but probably today as you read it). I’m sure I’ll be too excited to sleep well tonight!

But let’s get “business” out of the way first, since I won’t be able to share pictures of the event until next week. I sewed this week on some red blocks for Red March in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. 

Above are the seven Hollow Nine-Patch blocks that will finish at 6” in a quilt someday. I’ve just started these this month because I have so many 2 ½” squares and they need to be pared down. I’ve made them for RSC before and just love their ease and versatility in kid quilts. 

Below are the two Rolling Stone blocks I did in red. They finish at 12”, so I’ll probably end up with enough for at least one larger kid quilt, maybe two. 

I still have my red strings and crumbs to tackle next week, so there will be more red sewing. But for this week, I belatedly decided I ought to work on my scrap challenge quilt. Every year at WW Quilting Day, they make up gallon-sized baggies of scrap “kits”. They are numbered, and you can check one out if you’d like to make it into a quilt, supplementing it with your own scraps. Well, I forgot about it last year until just as we were leaving. So I ran back to the table where these were and all that were left were three very dark and ugly bags of scraps. I selected one that had some bright bits in it, and checked it out. 

Fast forward to this week - *ahem* I’m usually not a procrastinator, but the fabrics were so dark and ugly that I couldn’t justify spending time on it. There were 43 little wonky square-in-a-square blocks (about 2-3” each, I never actually measured). The center was a small bright print surrounded by ugly blues and grays. But there was a piece of a solid bright blue nestled in the bag that gave me an idea. So I pulled out some solid brights and set out adding another round of triangles to the wonky blocks to brighten them up. 

So the above picture shows what I had by Wednesday morning. But Ruby and  I spent Wednesday at Cathy’s house, longarm quilting the wedding quilt for my grandson’s that I’ve been working on. I’ll show that hopefully next week. It’s quilted and trimmed and I just need to bind it, then I’ll need a quilt holder and locale for its glamour shots. But I digress.

Anyway, the bright triangles brought the block sizes up to 5” (4.5” sewn). Set at 6x7, the quilt was still small. So I added a purple stop border and searched my stash for another border and backing fabric. I struck gold! Well, metaphorically anyway, because the border fabric was perfect! 

I quilted it with a simple stipple. The backing was a blue batik that my friend Nann had sent me some time ago, and I also used it as the fold-over binding. The quilt measures 37.5 x 42”. I actually ended up loving it, and will be happy to turn it in! At WW Quilting Day, the organizers do a random prize drawing of the numbered kits that are turned in as quilts. I’m hoping that my kit #16 will be a lucky number this year! As usual, the quilt will be donated to Quilts for Kids.

So that brings my total quilt finishes this year up to three so far, all done this month. And when I get the binding on the wedding quilt, which will be done this month, that will be four finishes! I think my slump is over! 

This was a busy week. We got our taxes done (yay!) and our accountant will be handling both my brother’s 2025 tax return and the estate tax return (after the closing on the sale of his house). He explained the process, and I’m so relieved that I’m in the hands of a great trust accountant, a good attorney and a good real estate agent. I see the light at the end of the tunnel, and it’s not an oncoming train! 

We are also planning our trip to Arizona in April, so that will be nice. But no sewing for 10 days, so I’ll be playing catch-up again in April. Then there is also my grandson’s wedding (another 2-day trip to northern Utah), and the court hearing (by phone) to be named as Personal Representative of my brother’s estate. All in April. Also, my left knee is going downhill fast, and I don’t think I’ll be able to wait until September to get that knee replaced. I’m thinking now that it’ll be some time in late June. That will mean I can heal in plenty time to enjoy the swimming pool this summer! 

Life is good. 

Drowning in the Red Sea (of my Scrap Bin)

Nothing like a little over-dramatization, eh? Actually, my red scrap bin is just right - full but not overflowing, and yielding some yummy scraps and chunks to work with this month. March in the international group Rainbow Scrap Challenge is dedicated to sewing up our red scraps. Every month for the first 10 months of the year, our hostess Angela calls a new color for us to focus on. We make blocks (our choice) and share with the other participants. The last two months are spent either sewing our resulting blocks into quilts, catching up with a color or two that needs more work, or just laying low for the holidays. Personally, I enjoy lots of manic sewing during that time to get things “off my plate” for the following year. 

So let me first show you two quilt finishes that happened this week. My friend Ruby has a longarm quilting machine, and she volunteered to quilt these two little quilts for me so that I could get them bound in time for the World Wide Quilting Day event we’ll be attending next Saturday. Our Quilts for Kids group will be there, and I wanted to get these turned in. 

First up is Night-Flying Geese. This was a Rainbow Scrap project for me last year, inspired by my friend Cathy at Sane, Crazy, Crumby Quilting. It measures 41x52”.

I don’t know the name of the quilting pattern, but it rather reminds me of the apple core pattern, or a variation thereof. You can (barely) see part of the pattern in the closeup below. 

The second quilt is this little hodgepodge of blue scraps that I put together in January. I hated all the scraps and it was either sew them up or give them away. So I did both; the resulting blue quilt will go to Quilts for Kids. Heck, I figure it’ll be OK if the kid likes blue and closes his/her eyes when they sleep, LOL!! 

In all seriousness, I guess every quilt isn’t a looker, and I’d rather sew up the scraps than see them in a landfill. It measures 40.5x46.5”. 

I finished sewing the wedding quilt blocks into a flimsy. No pictures, though, because I need to press the bajillion seams and trim threads on the back. Then I’ll sew up a backing so that I can turn it over to Ruby when she’s over on Sunday. She’ll be quilting it, and wants me to come over to pick out the thread and quilting pattern this coming week. I hope she doesn’t think I want to start learning how to operate the longarm, because that is DEFINITELY not going to happen. On a scale of 1-10, my interest level for longarming is at -2.

I also dove into my red scraps (see the title of this post). I had already cut out most of my blocks, and indeed I have sewn most of them, but this week I’m sharing my Gameboard blocks and my Switchplate blocks.

Here are the four Gameboard blocks, which will finish at 8”.

They are really fun to make, but very easy to mis-orient. Ask me how I know. Next, were the Switchplate blocks, also inspired by unabashedly copied from friend Cathy referenced earlier in the post. 

This is the second year I’m making these. The blocks are small, finishing at 3x5”, so it takes a lot to make even a kid-sized quilt. I may be hating life when I have to sew them all together, but I’ll remind myself that it’s a good way to use up 1.5” strips of fabric. 

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I want to thank everyone for their lovely comments last week. After being gone for a month, it was so heartwarming to read your comments. I genuinely appreciate it. I believe I’m back on the right track now after one hellacious winter! Life feels a bit easier these days. Yes, spring is on the verge of popping, but it’s more than that. I no longer feel as though I’m slogging through water as I go about my days. The mental fog has lifted, the Must-Do’s are waning and I’ve been able to actually step back into my mostly-organized routines. I’ve been making plans for the spring and even out into the mid and later parts of the year. 

In early April, we’ll be taking a trip to southern Arizona to visit Bruce’s three remaining siblings. We are looking forward to it. Cousin Kim is also coming (her mom was Bruce’s oldest sister Faye, who died in 2005) and she and I will split the driving. We will take 2 days to get down there, stay a week with the family, and take two days driving home. We haven’t been there since February, 2020, just before the Covid shutdown. Bruce’s siblings haven’t seen him since his arm amputation. Since 2020, we have lost Carrie (Kim’s sister), Doug (Bruce’s younger brother) and our brother-in-law Glenn, husband of Bruce’s sister Annette. Our numbers are dwindling, and we all feel it’s important to gather while we can.

In late April, my daughter Megan is flying out here from Seattle to attend my grandson Easton’s wedding (her nephew). We’ll all drive up to the Logan, Utah area (northern Utah) and stay in hotels so that we can enjoy all the festivities and not have to make the 2+ hour drive up and back in the same day. And that reminds me that I’d better go dress shopping this month!

Also in late April/early May will be the court date (by phone) to finalize my appointment as my late brother’s Personal Representative. The closing on the sale of his house will then follow the next week and I’ll be able to sign all the vehicle titles over to their new owners. Life will be so much easier not paying all Steve’s bills in addition to ours! There are still taxes and things to fret about, but we’ve got a great accountant and he’s already on the job. 

But today is for fun. I’ve set the agenda for the day, since it’s my birthday. First we’re going to our favorite garden center, where we’ll special order in some shrubs and flats of flowers. We’ll also talk to them about the design and sprinkler services they offer so that I can hopefully get our courtyard garden all properly set up with accessible valves and sprinkling systems (more drip irrigation instead of sprinklers). Then we plan to enjoy the weather outside, even if it’s just sitting in the courtyard sunshine and reading. And finally, dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant. 

Life is good. 

Finally, Some Time to Sew . . . And Blog!

I know I’ve been gone from the blog for awhile, like a month. One week I was in Colorado, attending to my brother’s estate. The second week I had no sewing to report and no time to report that I had nothing to report. The third week was just general malaise. I’ll stop short of saying “depression”, but it was a feeling of being overwhelmed and having so many things beyond my control. You’d think that at this stage of life (old, pre-historic) I’d be an old hand at daunting circumstances. You’d be wrong!

But things are looking up on several fronts. Spring is so close, I can almost taste it! At least I think I can -  when it stops raining and snowing and the sun comes out. 

I’ve had an offer, which I’ve accepted, on the sale of my late brother’s house. The probate docs have been filed and we should be through all the legal stuff in plenty time to complete the rest of the stuff - closing on the house, passing titles on the vehicles (two out of three of which have been problematic). Stuff. I’d really like to call it what it is, so here goes. . . it’s all “bullstuff”, if you catch my drift. But at least that means there is an end in sight to the maintaining of two households this spring. Still have to get through tax season, a mammogram, and an eye appointment. But at least I’ve found a new primary care physician, even if I can’t get in to see her until June. 

This past week I’ve really had a lot of time to sew. I only had to dedicate one day to legal/realestate/ tax/insurance and utility issues for my brother. After that, I turned my attention to sewing (and family and friends too). I’m beginning to emerge from my protective winter cocoon. 

I finished the last 15 of the 30 blocks (that finish at 16”) for my grandson’s wedding quilt. I’ll do a post next week on that. For now, I’m sewing them together into a flimsy so I can get it to Ruby to quilt in the last half of March. 

After the wedding quilt blocks, the next priority was to get caught up on my blocks for green February in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. 

 3 Gameboard blocks, 1 Rolling Stone block, 2 Switchplate blocks, 45 string blocks

Once I was caught up with dark and bright green (I’ll save the pastels for another month), I tackled my red scrap bin. Red is the RSC color that Angela chose for March. While nothing is sewn yet, I do have all my planned blocks cut out and ready to stitch.

Top: 7 Hollow 9’s, Middle left: Switchplates, Middle right: 4 Gameboards, Bottom: 2 Rolling Stones 

There will be red string blocks and maybe a crumb block or two as well, but I usually save those until later in the month. 

Today I will sew. We have no planned family or friend gatherings, there is no paperwork waiting for me or cooking chores or housework. Except one load of laundry to fold. I can handle that. But if a cat climbs up in my lap and insists on holding me in place in my recliner, I may not have the will to resist. I’m sure you understand. 

See you next week! 

Limited Sewing

This past week has been crazy; Olympics, Super Bowl and the continuing horror of the Trump Administration aside. I’ve been prepping for my trip to Colorado next week to begin the task of sorting and dismantling my late brother’s effects. Besides the packing lists and other details, I’m not sure how prepared I am for the emotional impact as I get to his house and he is not there. Going through his clothes, selling his vehicles, saving family mementos and being surrounded by all things Steve, except Steve himself. Thank goodness my cousin Dan will be there with me, both for emotional comfort and for physical assistance with the “outside stuff” (cars, tools, equipment). 

All that to say that my sewing time was limited this week and my heart was not in it. I did manage to sew one block, a single Rolling Stone block, in green. Green, dark and bright, is the color of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. We’ll save the lights and pastels for another month because green, like blue, is such a huge color for many of us. Anyway, here is my single block, 12.5” unfinished size. 

I did fiddle with my Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR) blocks, but I’ve been frustrated lately trying to reconcile the prompts with the style of  my starter blocks and my vision for turning them into kid quilts. I want to keep the whimsical Mary Engelbreit feel, and it is not going the way I want it to. So, I’ve definitely narrowed it down to doing only the Queen block. I’ll save the Princess block to do on my own later. 

And I’m not particularly happy with my ideas for the current round on the Queen block, either. Part of my frustration is the color of the blues. I do want to pick up the lighter blues of the central motif, but both of the blues pictured are too dark. Or are they? Most of the panel colors are so rich and saturated. But I do think the monkey wrench block will work as cornerstones for the pre-printed border print that came with the block as long as I add to it in width. I figured I should use that border print before the top gets too big for the limited length of it that I have. 

I may have to break down and buy a half yard of lighter blue, but not until I search everywhere in my stash, including all 30+ kits I’ve assembled that are in a box under my sewing tables. But I don’t have the sewjo mojo to do that now. So, I’ll be dropping out of the SAHRR. I just need to do these my way and at my pace when life calms down. I should be focusing on the wedding quilt for my grandson anyway, and the Rainbow Scrap Challenge is my second priority. That’s about all I can handle now. 

Have a wonderful week, wherever you are. Enjoy the Super Bowl (if you watch) and the Olympics. I won’t be posting next week as I’ll be in Colorado with limited internet and no sewing machine. But I’ll see you back here the following week. Stay safe and warm!

PS - I just noticed as I posted this that I sewed the Rolling Stone block backwards! See? MY mind is on walkabout. I’ll fix it and repost it in a couple weeks. Sheesh!

Getting Over the Blues and SAHRR Round 2

This week I’m starting off with my Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR) Round 2 additions. Our hostess this week is Kathleen, whose prompt for this round is “Make it a Double”. We could choose any double block (double pinwheel, double churn dash and the like) or use something related to the number two - a “2” itself or two colors, two layers or some other creative variation of double/twin/two. 

My center blocks are very busy. The round I added last week focused on additions to the tops and bottoms only so I could work with a rectangle shape going forward. But I knew I had to build in a simple round for the eye to rest,  just as Mary Engelbreit does with some of her colors around the central picture, some of which got cut off to square up the block or got eaten in seam allowances. 

So I chose to work with two colors. My first plan, inspired by my friend Wendy’s adorable wonky double bar blocks, was to do something similar, making a 2-colored piano key border around. But I didn’t have enough of the right blues in either instance (either block) to pull it off. So, I just made blue cornerstones and added the remaining blue on the center sides, filling in with a two-toned yellow stripe. I’m sorry about the photo quality; the blue in the picture looks almost navy or black, but it’s also a two-toned blue stripe fabric in the same scale as the yellow. I played and played with the saturation and color temperature, but couldn’t get the photo to resemble real life. I think I’ll need to take future pictures at midday on sunny days! 

The photo did show me, though, that the blue ¼” border that got eaten up in the seam allowance is showing through on the yellow striped fabric. I’ll correct that by pressing the seam allowance to the center or open before moving on to the next round. The Princess block now measures 19x26”.

Moving on to the Queen block, I used the two colors in a different way. For the four corners I made half-square triangles with gold and blue. The blue is polka dots, like the red from last week’s hourglass blocks. I’ll give the dots a rest for the next couple rounds!! The Queen block now measures 19x24.5”.

I’m sharing my blocks at the weekly SAHRR linkup at Kathleen McMusing’s blog. Come and check out all the wonderful creations that are growing before our eyes! 

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My week wouldn’t be complete without some Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) sewing, and I had a lot to finish up with the color blue for January. At the top of the lineup was making these three Gameboard Blocks. I don’t know where these blocks originated, but I know that at least two ladies participating in the RSC last year were making them, and I was smitten. 

These will make a fun and colorful quilt, and the blocks will look good without sashing for a simple kid’s quilt. I’m really looking forward to sewing more of these 8” (finished size) blocks. 

I gathered my blue crumbs and made six more crumb blocks at 6.5”. I already had 3 blue crumbs blocks in the Orphanage, and these six will join them there, waiting for when their numbers increase in future years to 15. Then they’ll be passed on to our Quilts for Kids chapter to be included in a quilt kit. 

My final blue project for this month (meaning today, the last day of January!) is sewing up these 6.5” blocks and squares that I cut out at the very start of the month. I was still recovering from my knee surgery then, so cutting and then sewing for long periods of time was out of the question. I cleaned out much of my ugly blues for these blocks, and the rest of the ugly scraps were put in the donation pile for the upcoming Worldwide Quilting Day in March. One quilter’s yucky fabric is another one’s treasure, right?

But I have a backing already prepped, and webbing and sewing this top won’t take long. It can then join the Night Flying Geese flimsy (that I forgot to photograph) and I’ll hopefully be able to pin baste them both in preparation for quilting. 

I hope our friends in the East and Midwest are staying warm and safe. I hear that there are some bomb cyclones due this weekend in the Carolinas. Please take care, my friends. And to our friends in Minneapolis, we’re with you in solidarity. Stay safe and stay strong. The courts are finally speaking out and reining in the lawlessness of this administration. We’ll get through this. 

Have a great weekend. 

More Blue Scrappy and SAHRR Sewing

It’s been a busy week. Unlike those of you in the East, Midwest and South, we sure have had no precipitation to speak of for weeks. It’s scary thinking about what our water situation is going to be come summer, because unless things turn around in the next 2-3 months, even the mountains are hurting for snow. Some ski resorts are hoping they don’t have to shut down early. Having said that, however, I think of the mountain passes I’ll have to drive through come February when my cousin and I take off for a road trip to Western Colorado to handle my late brother’s estate business. And if it’s not icy and wintery in the passes, it won’t hurt my feelings. 

There was a lot of blue sewing this week. I made the second of two Rolling Stone blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge’s blue January.  The new one is on the left, last week’s is on the right. 

And then I got out my blue strings. As I’ve mentioned several times in the past, I like to sew my string blocks at 6.5” and in sets of 15 because that is how our Salt Lake Chapter of Quilts for Kids uses them in their quilt kits. So, I divided lights from darks and sewed 30 light blue blocks. Here they are trimmed, safety-pinned together into two sets on the design wall. 

I also did 15 darker blue blocks, but those have yet to be trimmed, so I’ll show them next week. 

Oh! I forgot to show you that I did indeed finish up the third row of the wedding quilt I’m sewing for my grandson. Exactly half of the 16” blocks are sewn now. I hope to pick this up again after next week. 

Last but not least (well, size-wise, they are the least) were these five Switchplate blocks. I started these last year, and will finish up what I need this year for a kid quilt. They’ll finish at 3x5”. I could’ve sworn I cut and sewed six of them, but one must’ve escaped. Or was perhaps detained by ICE. 

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And we’re off and running with the Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR)!  This week’s first round is hosted by Brenda at Songbird Designs. Brenda called for hourglass blocks. We can make them any size and place as many or as few as we want. 

I always try to make my center square starting blocks evolve into a rectangular quilt, because I prefer rectangular quilts, and so does our QFK (Quilts for Kids) chapter, where these will eventually end up. So, I placed my hourglass blocks on the tops and bottoms only of my two starting blocks. 

First, the Princess blocks. The hourglasses finish at 3”. 

On both blocks above and below, I had to add coping strips (fabric spacers) to the end of each row.  The Queen block, below, has slightly smaller-sized hourglasses, and I set them in a Broken Dishes layout.

There are lots of colors in each of these blocks, and I may try to use most of them at some point in the upcoming rounds; however, I want the dominant colors for the Princess to be pink and yellow and for the Queen to be red and gold.  I think these hourglasses work perfectly with the whimsy of these blocks! Thanks Brenda! Be sure to check out all the eye candy at Brenda’s linkup, HERE. 

And that was my week. There was also physical therapy, grocery shopping, card games at the clubhouse, and lots of talking on the phone to friends and family. So, all in all, Life is Good!